April 22nd, 2019 by John Farrell
Originally published at ilsr.org.Host John Farrell talks with Marcel Castro Sitiriche, co-director of CoHemis at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, about the challenges Puerto Rico faces in building a clean and resilient energy system. They also discuss:
✔ The impact of hurricane Maria and why it took nearly a year to restore power to some residents of the island after the storm.
✔ Using the framework of customer hours of lost electricity service to calculate the impact of hurricane Maria and compare it to other storms.
✔ How
solar and storage can be instrumental in making Puerto Rico’s energy system more resilient.
✔ The impact of Puerto Rico’s colonial past on its present effort to build an energy system for everyone.
✔ Clean energy legislation in Puerto Rico and near term opportunities to create a more distributed energy system.